I am getting an issue while executing this project.

[arm235]

removing

[phillipsic]

I am also seeing the same issue. Using version 2.3.2.

I have cloned the project and using the following to run: mvn clean verify -Pscreenplay

I get the same error as previously reported.

I have tried the 'serenity-cucumber-starter' project and no issue seen there. But I am interested in the screenplay part

[wakaleo]

"Could not instantiate new WebDriver instance of type class org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver (com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Invalid escape sequence at line 1 column 76 path $.). See below for more details." - There is a problem creating the ChromeDriver instance. This is usually a compatibility issue with the chromedriver binary and Chrome, but could be an error in the chrome configuration properties.

That said, I can't reproduce this at all - are you trying with the latest version of the code base?

[phillipsic]

I have tried that project and it works OK, which why I do not understand why this project does not work as well?

The only difference I could see was the version of serenity (cucumber-started is 2.3.4).

I have only started on this today so working with the latest code base for each project.

I have run this framework on my personal laptop (a Mac) and no issue. A coworker (also on Windows) has the same issue. Appears to be a Windows issue.

[senthilkumar-gopi]

I also got the same problem. I just removed following line in serenity.conf and then it is working fine for me.

preferences {
download: "{prompt_for_download: false,directory_upgrade: true,default_directory:'${user.dir}/downloaded-files'}"
}

[grasshopper7]

The '.' character in 'user.dir' needs to be escaped. Try this - ${user\.dir}